Back in the Dark Palace at night. The Dark lord could be seen sitting in an open window drinking alcohol in his nightgown, while wantonly staring into the distance.
"How dare you make my heart ache like this. I promise you, when we meet next, I will make you mine, no matter the cost." He said as he drank from his bottle of sake.
"At the end of spring
My heart shall no longer ache
At Walpurgisnacht"
The dark lord said, before he continued sulking over being dumped by his first love. He continued to drink his sorrows away.
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Nox's POV:
After many nights of hiding from the women prowling the streets in search of my handsome face. I finally acquired a safe space inside the academy where those creeps can't stalk me. Those were my thoughts when I moved into the professor's dormitory, but after getting dressed I moved towards my window curtains to greet the day, as well as the three bloodshot eyes pressed up against my window.
A day or two ago, someone had leaked my new address to my local stalkers. Ever since then I have suffered numerous break inns, hidden surprises and even a couple of sexual assaults under the cover of night. They must have purposely gotten up early to try and jumpscare me by pressing their faces up against my window. I could honestly applaud their group efforts as most men would have shit their pants at the sight of this in the morning. Fortunately for me, thanks to the infernal screams and grotesque imagery that is constantly flowing through my head, such amateurs could never hope to make me flinch. I opened the window to greet today's stalkers.
"Good morning, Izabella Crout Ferd, Fujimoto Akane and Wang Ai. What brings you young ladies to the professors' dormitory? Should you not be getting ready for today's class?"
"OMG! He knows my name!"
"Having seen his face, I feel I could die happy."
"Uhm. Professor Sun? What kind of woman do you like?"
I was growing tired of playing this perfect professor Sun, day in and day out. Fortunately, after memorizing the names and faces of every student, and being shown the ropes of the academy by none other than the kind Graybeard himself. I can finally begin teaching my class.
"Unfortunately, I do not have time to answer all the questions of you fine young ladies today, as I have to begin preparing for my first day as a professor of my own class."
"AWW!" the girls looked rather disappointed as they all started moaning in unison.
"Professor Sun? Which classes are you teaching today?"
"Oh, look how the time flies! I seem to be late for my appointment with the vice principals. Apologies ladies, but I have to bid you all farewell for today." I said as I closed and locked my windows, doors, secret crawlspace, and whatever else these pests might try and wiggle through. Only after activating my security enchantments to make sure none of the students would be able to break in, did I leave.
"Hey, Professor Sun? Could you help me with my homework after class?"
"Apologies, but the vice principal has requested I fill out some forums at that time."
"Hey, Mr. Sun? Would you care for a drink with this miss after work?"
"I will have to regrettably decline, as the vice principal has asked, I finish grading the test scores from class 2B"
"Hey professor Sun?-"
Even if I changed my apparent age and gender, I would always get mobbed by a horde of people for my face. When I was a woman, it was a gang of playboys, as a man it is a horde of giggling girls, and as a child it was everyone's grandma trying to pinch my cheeks. Even altering my face manually won't work because I can never figure out what's too much or too little with these people. I either just end up with the same problem or get mistaken for some new kind of humanoid monster.
Never did I imagine I would find such a conveniently effective shield against these female pests. A simple vice principal said this, or a vice principal asked that, and they all get banished to the dark dimension from whence they came. For the first time since becoming a man this year, have I felt so light as the worries weighing me down were lifted of my shoulders. I entered my classroom to greet the students I would spend the rest of this year with.
"Greetings, my young stuuuu-" I stopped in the middle of my greeting as I realized my classroom was empty.
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A little while later
"Well, that's not right. Classes started ten minutes ago, and I can't sense any more stragglers rushing to class, which means…"
"Hey, Mr. Sun? Would you. Ah!"
The coworker coming to check in on him, and possibly ask on a date, fell back in fear upon entering class 2F. The always gentle and polite professor Sun was suddenly giving off an aura of death and carnage as he was replaced by the devil himself. As the room dimmed his eyes started shining blue as he turned to her, with the same polite and gentle expression, only this time something ominous was clearly lurking behind that innocent face.
"You are professor Chelsy, homeroom teacher of 3E, correct?"
"Y-Y-Y-Y!" Too scared to even speak she wet herself as if she was standing before death itself.
Ignoring her sudden excretion, I asked her a question.
"Professor Chelsy? Might you be so kind as to direct me towards wherever my students may have disappeared to."